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dipsydoodle

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Fri Oct 25, 2013, 06:18 PM Oct 2013

NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack.



The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday.

NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible.

Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the matter, and implied that a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA.

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-site-ddos-attack-754/

Try it by all means - its true.
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NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack. (Original Post) dipsydoodle Oct 2013 OP
Just use the internet archive, like everyone did during the shutdown jakeXT Oct 2013 #1
Happens during the Friday news dump cycle? xfundy Oct 2013 #2
Pakistan General RonAlps Oct 2013 #3
Welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2013 #6
Ok...which one of you broke it? dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #4
It was me. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #5
fyi for anyone who wants to check out the image: steve2470 Oct 2013 #7
The idiots that did this do realize that denying access to the web server BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #8
What's important is there is resistance. 1000words Oct 2013 #9
 
8. The idiots that did this do realize that denying access to the web server
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 09:44 PM
Oct 2013

doesn't shut down the NSA's crucial services, right?

All they are doing is causing a minor inconvenience and making themselves assets for some private prison somewhere.

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